Developing Youth Soccer Players (Rev. ed)

This superbly illustrated, full-color resource presents the most thorough and useful guidance on age-appropriate soccer coaching.

Addressing the mental and physical levels of players ages 7 through 14, author Horst Wein provides coaches of each age group a tailor-made program of simplified games and corrective teaching methods based on his internationally renowned Soccer Development Model.

This proven model classifies the development of young soccer players into five different formative levels, each with an age-specific training program, coaching style, and competition program.

With more than 200 illustrations, the well-organized and easy-to-follow information found in Developing Youth Soccer Players will help coaches become more effective teachers.

In the past decade, the natural approach to teaching young players -- a centerpiece of Wein's Soccer Development Model -- has unleashed the innate potential of young players in 13 countries.